All-optical switching and amplification of discrete vector solitons in nonlinear cubic birefringent waveguide arrays

Optics Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 2905-2907

  Vicencio, Rodrigo A ^a   Molina, Mario I ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-PHASE MODULATION; DISCRETE VECTOR SOLITONS; TRANSVERSE DYNAMICS; WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS;

BIREFRINGENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE MODULATION; RADIATION; SOLITONS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 10944254191     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.29.002905     Document Type: Article

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